"Just as the Argo's parts may be replaced over time but the boat is still called the Argo, whenever the lover utters the phrase 'I love you,' its meaning must be renewed by each use, as 'the very task of love and of language is to give to one and the same phrase inflections which will be forever new.'" (5)

"Words change depending on who speaks them; there is no cure. The answer isn't just to introduce new words (boi, cis-gendered, andro-fag) and then set out to reify their meanings (though obviously there is power and pragmatism here). One must also become alert to the multitude of possible uses, possible contexts, the wings with which each word can fly. Like when you whisper, You're just a hole, letting me fill you up. Like when I say husband."

lördag, februari 04, 2017

"Originally only a resident of
Mexico and thesouthwestern United States, [house finches] were introduced to
eastern North America in the 1940s. The birds were sold illegally inNew York Cityas
"Hollywood Finches," a marketing artifice.To avoid prosecution under theMigratory
Bird Treaty Act of 1918, vendors and owners released the birds. They have since
become naturalized."

onsdag, februari 01, 2017

"I waited to be told what was good about me. I wondered later if this was why there were so many more women than men at the ranch. All that time I had spent readying myself, the articles that taught me that life was really just a waiting room until somebody noticed you - the boys had spent that time becoming themselves." (28)

"It was the end of the sixties, or the summer before the end, and that's what it seemed like, an endless, formless summer. The Haight populated with white-garbed Process members handing out their oat-colored pamphlets, the jasmine along the roads that year blooming particularly heady and full." (25)